Everyman, January 1993. Cloth. Fictions is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables. Bound in heavy, deep red cloth with title in black and gold along the spine. Sewn in silk book mark..... More
Grove/Atlantic, December 1967. Trade Paperback. Some page toning and cover sunning; previous owner's name; else, very good. More
Viking Adult, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume..... More
Herder and Herder, 1971. First American. Cloth. First edition in mildly edgeworn jacket with a few creases front panel at top. Tanned spine verso. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5.50 on flap. Brown cloth with gold lettering. Olive green end pages. Previous owner's initials & a date inked bottom..... More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1988. Paper Back. Clean interiors. Otherwise well worn with dog-eared corners, sticker residue, dust stains, foxing & darkening from exposure to sunlight textblock edges. Foxing to verso of cover pages front & rear. Elsewise, foxing to blank pages opposite both front and back. (502 pp.). More
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Paper Back. In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination, from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the..... More
Purdue University Press, June 1991. Hardcover. This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by..... More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
The Friday Project, May 2014. Cloth. A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven..... More
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Malton Press, January 1982. Paper Back. More
Thunder's Mouth Press, November 2002. Paper Back. A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside..... More
NYU Press, August 1995. Paper Back. States of Mind presents a series of dialogues with twenty-two of the world's leading political, philosophical, and literary thinkers. Over the past decade, Richard Kearney has interviewed a range of notable figures, including Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, George Steiner, Charles Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, Seamus..... More
Yale University Press, April 2009. Paper Back. A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and..... More
